N-cyclohexylaminocarbonyl benzensulfonmide derivatives

Abstract

A class of N-cyclohexylaminocarbonyl benzenesulfonamide derivatives are agonists or partial agonists or antagonists of PPAR gamma and are useful in the treatment and control of hyperglycemia that is symptomatic of type II diabetes, as well as dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and obesity that are often associated with type 2 diabetes.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a U.S. National Phase application under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of PCT Application No. PCT / US2004 / 000689, filed Jan. 13, 2004, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60 / 440,761, filed Jan. 17, 2003.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The instant invention is concerned with N-cyclohexylaminocarbonyl benzenesulfonamide derivatives which are useful as therapeutic compounds, particularly in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and of conditions that are often associated with this disease, including obesity and lipid disorders.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Diabetes is a disease derived from multiple causative factors and is characterized by elevated levels of plasma glucose (hyperglycemia) in the fasting state or after administration of glucose during an oral glucose tolerance test. There are two generally recognized forms of diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, or insulin-dependent diab...

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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a new group of compounds that can treat diabetes and other metabolic disorders by acting on the PPAR receptors. These compounds can lower glucose, lipids, and insulin in diabetic patients and improve insulin resistance in non-diabetic patients. They can also help treat conditions associated with diabetes, such as hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and atherosclerosis. The compounds described in this patent are useful for the treatment and control of diabetes and other metabolic disorders.

Problems solved by technology

Patients who are insulin resistant but not diabetic compensate for the insulin resistance by secreting more insulin, so that serum glucose levels are not elevated enough to meet the criteria of Type 2 diabetes.

In patients with Type 2 diabetes, even elevated plasma insulin levels are insufficient to overcome the pronounced insulin resistance.

Persistent or uncontrolled hyperglycemia that occurs with diabetes is associated with increased and premature morbidity and mortality.

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have a significantly increased risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications, including atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, nephropathy, neuropathy, and retinopathy.

Patients with metabolic syndrome, whether or not they have or develop overt diabetes mellitus, have an increased risk of developing the macrovascular and microvascular complications that are listed above that occur with type 2 diabetes, such as atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

This lack of responsiveness to insulin results in insufficient insulin-mediated activation of uptake, oxidation and storage of glucose in muscle and inadequate insulin-mediated repression of lipolysis in adipose tissue and of glucose production and secretion in the liver.

Compliance with this treatment is very poor because of well-entrenched sedentary lifestyles and excess food consumption, especially of foods containing high amounts of fat.

However, dangerously low levels of plasma glucose can result from administration of insulin and / or insulin secretagogues, and an increased level of insulin resistance due to the even higher plasma insulin levels can occur.

However, phenformin and metformin can induce lactic acidosis and nausea / diarrhea.

Some of the compounds, and especially troglitazone, have exhibited liver toxicity.

Troglitazone was eventually withdrawn from the marketplace because of hepatotoxicity.

Another weakness in the currently marketed PPAR agonists is that monotherapy for type 2 diabetes produces only modest efficacy—a reduction in average plasma glucose of ≈20% and a decline from ≈9.0% to ≈8.0% in HemoglobinA1C.

The current compounds also do not greatly improve lipid metabolism, and may actually have a negative effect on the lipid profile.

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